windows 7 phone scam

[Ickie]

do not fall for the windows 7 upgrade phone scam from somebody claiming they are a tech from MS and they are from india.
They will tell you that you need to update to professional or your computer will not work after an upcoming date. They also have the professional to sell you, lol. (than you will no longer work) They want your CC #

they called canelo 5 times.

 

[arfyhun]

I just hope they ring me Ickie. I love cold callers. I play them like fish.

Once I did a 'Tom Mabe' on one and informed the caller they had rung into a crime scene. (In G.B. it is an offence if you tell someone you're a copper...but if they ring you it's not). Once I'd said I was Detective Sergeant Johnston from Ealing C.I.D. instructing him not to hang up as if he does we will trace the call and a unit will be at his work within minutes, made him putty in my hands!

I had the fellows name and address, his firm's name and address, his managers name, the works! Sung like a bird, 'e did guv'nor!

Honestly, the '6pm. calls' stopped almost immediately.

Other things I've done are;

Asked for an interpreter who speaks Welsh. (My home language);

Keep asking them to hang on, (invent one drama after another);

Ask them to repeat every sentence they say. Blame it on a bad line;

Just leave the phone on the table and let them listen to the tele;

But the outright winner is to go along with them as they give their spiel and every now and again keep saying 'you're my friend' and 'I 'avent 'ad you lately, 'ave I?

I used to love living in London, 'me old manor', just for those brief moments of fun.


'Ave I 'ad you lately Ickie?.....

Graham.

 

[TheGrunt]

I just hope they ring me Ickie. I love cold callers. I play them like fish.

Once I did a 'Tom Mabe' on one and informed the caller they had rung into a crime scene. (In G.B. it is an offence if you tell someone you're a copper...but if they ring you it's not). Once I'd said I was Detective Sergeant Johnston from Ealing C.I.D. instructing him not to hang up as if he does we will trace the call and a unit will be at his work within minutes, made him putty in my hands!

I had the fellows name and address, his firm's name and address, his managers name, the works! Sung like a bird, 'e did guv'nor!

Honestly, the '6pm. calls' stopped almost immediately.

Other things I've done are;

Asked for an interpreter who speaks Welsh. (My home language);

Keep asking them to hang on, (invent one drama after another);

Ask them to repeat every sentence they say. Blame it on a bad line;

Just leave the phone on the table and let them listen to the tele;

But the outright winner is to go along with them as they give their spiel and every now and again keep saying 'you're my friend' and 'I 'avent 'ad you lately, 'ave I?

I used to love living in London, 'me old manor', just for those brief moments of fun.


'Ave I 'ad you lately Ickie?.....

Graham.

Scambaiters are the best There are hilarious examples on scambaiting related forums where alert citizens have some fun with these a-holes and take time away them scamming other people. Unfortunately, there are always some who fall for the trick. At worst they are elderly or some other way disabled people who really don't understand what is going on.